Ahmer Raza

I am a MS student in Mathematics at Clemson University.

I conduct research in statistical inference and privacy under Dr. Chris McMahan and Dr. Rafael D'Oliviera. I also do machine learning research under the supervision of Dr. Hudson Smith.

I received my BS in Computer Science, where I worked on projects in hardware security under Dr. Zhenkai Zhang.

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Publications

Private and Efficient Surveillance using Group Testing

Ahmer Raza, Christopher McMahan, Rafael D'Oliveira

Biometrika (Submitted)

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Massively Parallel Exact Inference for Hawkes Processes

Ahmer Raza, Hudson Smith

NeurIPS 2026 (Submitted)

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CAROT: A Secure RISC-V ECU with Trusted Execution and Moving Target Defense

Ahmer Raza, Zhenkai Zhang

IEEE SecDev 2025
Distinguished Paper

News

Jan 2026 Gave an invited talk at the Joint Mathematics Meetings on differentially private group testing.
Oct 2025 Paper awarded the Distinguished Paper Award at IEEE SecDev 2025 .
Apr 2025 Awarded 1st place in the Presentation Competition at the SC-ASA Palmetto Symposium.
Mar 2024 Our robot won 1st place in the Hardware Competition at IEEE SoutheastCon.